Ravioli Chair
Greg Lynn, 2005
As an architect and theoretician, Greg Lynn has intensively pursued innovations in the fields of design and architecture made possible by computer-assisted design methods.
Using this method Lynn reinterprets classic upholstered furniture to create a contemporary and comfortable sculptural chair. Made by Vitra of a fiberglass-reinforced polyester shell, a polyurethane foam seat, and a knitted fabric cover.
you can own this chair for $3595.00
I am sorry i just don't know how these new designers come up with this stuff, no doubt I am time warp in the mid-century and think these guys who designed the furniture almost 50 years ago came up with so many timeless designed that look like they were designed last week , For some reason I just don't think this thing would have made the cut to last for the test of time, What do you think like it or hate it?
I don't hate it I just don't like it even if it had Pantons name on or Jacoben.
wrong design
its not that i dont like the look, but i feel that at this point there needs to be a pertinant design philosophy behind current works. from the materials and description of the techy method of design, it is a 50 year old method of designing. this was apropriate for eames and his contemporaries with their social concerns, but hardly so today in a time when environmental issues are pressing. i cant help but see a fuel swilling SUV of a chair here, and i guess i expect designers (when not working in a specific material) to show more awareness of the issues of our time. so i have a hard time even wanting to judge it on its aesthetics, when i feel it has failed immediatly on bigger issues.
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The product of a twenty something too in love with their software to see the forest for the trees.
The suv analogy is spot on. There is so much design and oppurtunity now that its like a fat ball of dough that drowns everything in its path. The best design comes from prinicples, constraints and need.
To be positive though, I can see a kind of Verner Panton chairscape happening with different formations (lose the lower half) acting as interchangeable tiles. It might work in a nightclub or a spa.
I think the thing that ...
I think the thing that really blows my mind is that Vitra is manufacturing it, and the vitra write up says
made possible by computer-assisted design methods.'
If that is the case any one would a good softwear program could really get after it, right HP? you know about designing chairs and from the looks at the one chair you had on the forum it looked pretty good,
I could see something like B B Italia or some other company making this chair, but to come out of Vitra that would be like Knoll or Herman miller making it here in the USA
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It stil takes some creativity to use the software and get good forms out of it. The trouble I find is that you can do something that looks reasonable so quickly that its very easy to just dump the files, you never feel like you earn what you've done so you don't value it enough to keep or develop.
I just think some designers use high tech methods (evergy instensive too) when its really not called for.
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